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Maersk Training’s cutting-edge helicopter and helideck simulators to support new lifelike offshore emergency trainings
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SeaState Aviation has conducted an inspection of the helideck on A2SEA’s jack-up vessel Sea Challenger, making sure it fulfills UK offshore helideck requirements before starting operations on the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm for Statoil later this year. The scope of work comprised an inspection of the helideck along with an audit of the operational […]
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SeaState Aviation has conducted an inspection of the helideck on A2SEA’s jack-up vessel Sea Challenger, making sure it fulfills UK offshore helideck requirements before starting operations on the 402MW Dudgeon offshore wind farm for Statoil later this year. The scope of work comprised an inspection of the helideck along with an audit of the operational […]
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Human Capital, Operations & Maintenance
Maersk Training is about to launch two new offshore emergency courses, the OPITO Helideck Emergency Response Team Member Training and the OPITO 6 Day Combined Helideck and Team Member Training. These two OPITO Accredited courses will kick start this month at the company’s training centre in the North-East of Scotland and be delivered using a […]
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Operations & Maintenance, Storage
Offshore service provider NDE Offshore has started annual inspections of the helideck substructures on three HVDC platforms in the German North Sea for Siemens Transmission.
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By Alexandra Popescu and Claudette Remeijsen Marketing & Communications at Bayards Aluminium Constructies B.V. Everyone knows helidecks are an engineering challenge to start with. So one can only imagine the immense challenge of replacing 179 decks. This was the case for the timber decks used on the ADNOC (Abu Dhabi National Oil Company) platforms in […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Operations & Maintenance
The newest edition to Dolphin’s fleet, high-capacity purpose-built vessel M/V Polar Empress, owned by GC Rieber Shipping, had its helideck installed this week. The seismic company Dolphin Geophysical has contracted the vessel for a fixed period of five years, and the high end vessel will enter this contract directly upon delivery from the yard in […]
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Tranberg AS has announced the worldwide product launch of the new CHLITE Touchdown/Positioning Marking fully applying to CAP437, 7th Ed. with Amendment. The CHLITE Helideck Lighting Solution is a cooperation between Calzoni S.r.l. – founded 1834 in Bologna-Italy (today an L-3 Company) and Tranberg – founded 1901 in Stavanger-Norway (today member of the R.Stahl Group). […]
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The Petroleum Safety Authority has given a notice of order to Ocean Rig regarding the working environment and emergency preparedness on the Leiv Eiriksson rig.
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Equipment, Exploration & Production
Det norske oljeselskap AS, the operator of the Ivar Aasen field in the North Sea, has shared images of a helideck being lifted on top of the Living Quarters (LQ) for the Ivar Aasen platform, being built by Apply Leirvik in its construction site in Stord, Norway. According to Det norske, it took three hours […]
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The U.S. Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) has published an Advanced Notice of Proposed Rulemaking in the Federal Register Reading Room soliciting public comments on improving the safety of helideck and aviation fuel operations on fixed offshore facilities. This notice is the most recent step in BSEE’s continued efforts to strengthen safety on […]
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SENER Ingeniería y Sistemas, S.A. has undertaken new structural calculations on the helideck of the Alba Floating Storage Unit (FSU), located in the Alba field, some 130 nautical miles northeast from Aberdeen. The Alba FSU was built twenty years ago by Astilleros y Talleres del Noroeste, S.A. (ASTANO) from a concept and class design by […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment
GEDA USA, the leading manufacturer of rack and pinion industrial elevator and hoist solutions, expanded its line of elevators, hoists and lifts for offshore drilling operations to include the Helideck Transport Platform. GEDA USA says that the Helideck Transport Platform’s innovative design has revolutionized access to offshore heliports. Access to heliports was previously limited to […]
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Equipment, Exploration & Production
Orga Offshore has installed its innovative CAP 437-compliant Circle – H LED touchdown, positioning and heliport dentification marking system on Ensco’s jackup drilling rigs ENSCO 70 and ENSCO 80. The latter marks the fifth installation for Orga in as many weeks and with orders to deliver and install 550 certified Circle-H helideck lighting systems over the next three years, […]
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DEME Group’s new DP3 offshore installation vessel Orion has been outfitted with a helideck. Orion was launched at the COSCO Qidong shipyard in China in November last year, while the 216.5m long vessel is scheduled for delivery by the end of 2019. The vessel will be deployed for the construction of the largest offshore wind farms, servicing […]
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Operations & Maintenance, Research & Development
DNV GL is launching a joint industry project (JIP) to improve risk assessment of offshore helideck turbulence through the use of computational fluid dynamics (CFD). The project’s aim is to bridge the gap between advised and actual hazardous flight conditions, ensuring cost-effective designs and helicopter operations without compromising safety. CFD is widely used in high-level analyses of […]
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Bayards Aluminium Constructies, a specialist in light weight and maintenance free structures for the offshore industry, has paired up with Barge Master, a pioneer in motion compensated equipment for the offshore industry, to design the first aluminium Motion Compensated Helideck. The new Motion Compensated Helideck (MCH) is driven by three actuators compensating two translations (sway […]
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Operations & Maintenance, Storage
NDE Offshore has completed the structural and subsea inspections on Siemens HVDC platforms in Germany, owned by TenneT.
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Ulstein Verft has installed a helideck on board Acta Marine’s new walk-to-work vessel Acta Centaurus at its yard in Ulsteinvik, Norway, thus completing the topside equipment installation process. According to Ulstein, Acta Centaurus will be completed and ready for operation in a little more than two months. “The main topside equipment, including tower, gangway and crane, has been […]
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Ulstein Verft has installed a helideck on board Acta Marine’s new walk-to-work vessel Acta Centaurus at its yard in Ulsteinvik, Norway, thus completing the topside equipment installation process. According to Ulstein, Acta Centaurus will be completed and ready for operation in a little more than two months. “The main topside equipment, including tower, gangway and crane, has been […]
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Business & Finance, Equipment, Project & Tenders
When Aberdeen-based Diamond Offshore wanted to add new functionality to the existing helideck monitoring system on the Ocean Guardian drilling rig in the North Sea, Fugro developed and delivered a fully integrated, user-friendly solution to fulfil the requirements. Severe weather conditions in the North Sea can cause major disruption to offshore operations so Diamond Offshore […]
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Oil & Gas UK has released a response with regards to the Unite’s ‘Back Home Safe’ campaign which calls for immediate improvements to the safety of offshore flights. “Oil & Gas UK acknowledges the concerns raised by the Unite Union and takes them very seriously. Oil & Gas UK is working closely with Step Change in […]
